Chapter 1 - Defining a Hair Transplant Chapter 7 - Who gets Transplants? Chapter 2 - Follicular Unit Transplants Chapter 8 - Expecting the Best Chapter 3 - Suggestions for your Surgery Chapter 9 - Corrective Procedures Chapter 4 - Post Surgery Experience Chapter 10 - Learn to be Cautious Chapter 5 - Doing the Research Chapter 11 - Myths and Legends Chapter 6 - Setting Expectations Chapter 12 - Credits

Coverage Goals

The doctor must discuss your hopes and expectations in light of the physical realities and financial constraints of your particular case. NHI affiliated physicians will work with you to develop realistic goals that are possible to achieve. It is impossible to determine exactly how many procedures it will take to accomplish the coverage you may want. Many people change their goals as their perspective changes with more hair. What we call "hair greed" often reflects a high satisfaction with the initial hair transplant and must be calculated into your decision-making formula.

Hairline Design

The doctor should sketch a hairline on your head and photograph you so that you can give your insights on a hairline location that meets your needs, your family and ethnic background, and your budget. The choice of hairline (how high, how flat, etc.) is very personal and depends on your head, facial shape, ethnicity, family characteristics, hair reserves, and personal goals. We generally discourage hairlines that do not reflect a maturing pattern because we fully expect that every one of our patients will live to be old.

Designing the Distribution of Your Hair

In general, we will transplant your hair in a natural distribution, (the way it naturally grows), so you may groom it as you choose. This is realistic in individuals who have above average hair densities and/or more than enough hair to gain the desired coverage for the area being covered. In individuals with low-density hair or an extensive balding area, weighting the hair to one side or the other may produce better coverage from the hair that can be safely harvested. In some instances where a patient has had previous transplants that were improperly distributed, and the patient has a limited donor supply, we may choose to distribute the repair transplants in a way that will most effectively camouflage the existing transplants.

Recommended Resources

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